Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-17
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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pcroue fhfs season.
Ma n,s started last November, now has a
population of COO.
Some farmers at Primrose are cutting up
their corn for fodder.
A new Baptist church Is to be bull, this fall
at North Des Moines.
Dubuque employs eighty-seven school teach.
ers In its pubic schools.
Fletcher has q spring that possesses vslua'
bic medicinal qualities.
Senator Robinson, the nominee for supreme
Judge, is A years Of age.
Friends Of the woman suffrage cause are
cordially welcomed at their cottage during
every day Of the state fair. The ladies are OF
hand early and late and always glad to greet
friends from all portions Of the state.
Lewis Lee, who is in jail at Webster City
for having three wives, knocked the sheriff
down Saturday and tried to escape, but was
captured ~ he was trying to climb the jail
fence.
At Corning q green club Of business men
was improvised and at their first game de-
feated a league club that had a BIG reputa-
ton. They announce now that II anybody
knows of a good nine they want TO play with
them.
Jack Reed, notorious leader OF the Rains.
barger gang, was arrested this week near
Zldora. He had been living several months
near Iowa Fails with the wife Of the dead out
law. He has been In the penitentiapy once
and viii again be sent there for stealing.
The Industrial school at Cedar Rapids will
be opened September ~, after the public
schools commence, and an effort will be made
to gather I'm all that are out OF school, especi-
ally boys. A printing press and carpenter
shop are to be added for their use.
At G meeting Of the directors OF the Da-
buque, Kansas City and Southwestern railroad
held at Dubuque Monday. u.
G. o'Neil was elected president and Peter
Kleine, jr., secretary and treasurer. A CON-
mittee was appointed TO open a book for stock
subscriptions along the proposed route.
John Kress, a farme at Dubuque, was ar
rested for selling grapes In violation OF the
ordinance relating to selling to grocers be-
saying he didn't have any time to waste
standing arou nd he had Cuisines at home"
Dubuque doesn't place a premium on early
rising.
Capt. Beal1, of the state house police force,
says he never saw so orderly a crowd OF PEG
pie as those in attendance at the fair visiting
the capitol. He says the building was
crowded Tuesday from sunrise until dark, bat
during The whole day he did not hear a single
cross word spoken, or a sound Of unnecesa AIRY
noise.
the board of supervisors at Davenport
ordered that the following taxes be levied
upon taxable property in that county for the
year 1857: A tax OF 21& mills for state reve-
nue.; 81 mills for county; 2 mills for poor;
~ mills for bridge; ~ mills for insane; l
mill for school; 3 mills for court house; 80
cents on each poll so cents every male dog,
and 81 on every female dog.
John Moody, OF Black Oak, enjoys Inc dis
~tinction of having the largest crab orchard In
Iowa, having about 200 trees, and they ale
certain bearers every year. He has always
found a market fer bis crop, which this year
will be ne,rly 300 bushels. He has calls for
them fifty miles away. He has nearly all the
standard crab varieties, and the cider there
from Is the Joy of ali Chic throats.
young man nsncd A. F.. johnson threw
himself across the railroad track at North
wood to be run over by the cars. The engin
eer saw him and reversed his engine, but It
was too late. Strange to say, the young man
was not killed, but his scalp was terribly cut
up. He will probably die. disappointment
In love is the cause Of the attempt TO suicide.
It is reported that a company has teen
formed, with a capital OF 81, 600, 000, to estab-
fish an underground pipe system for the pur-
pose Of piping beer from the distiilery at
Peoria to points along the Mississippi river on
the Iowa side. Considerable excitement has
been created by the announcement, and 1t is
doubtful II the transgressors can be reached
by the law.
The following pensions were granted st
Washington Saturday: Elizabeth, widow OF
James l.. Geddes, Ames; Martha A., mother
Of Randolph +. Harder, Polk; John Safely,
jr., Mt. Vernon; William Collins, Swan; Ed
win Goodwin, Independence; Increased: VIII
liam Fuller. Scott Grove; William n. Brown,
Dysart; Henry F. Davis, Belle PLANE. Re-
issue: James ID. sherman, Washir g,on /;
Frederick SPOTS, Bonneville; Hugh G Me-
Blrney, Cnurdan, Mexican war; Phillip Nc.
Spsrep, West Liberty.
The saloon keepers Of Council Bluffs got a
black eye Saturday. Bya decision Ia the dis
trict court a temporary INJUNCTION was Sc
cured some months ago sgainst Geo. d.
Brown, who owned a building which was
to Henry Doerhinger and by him used
for q hotel and bar. After days Of legal
squabbling the court found that Brown was
not guilty OF contempt OF court because Door,
finger had confined TO sell liquor after the
injunction had been served, bat Saturday II
rendered a decision that the Injunction must
be made permanent. This is q blow to the
aloon element OF Council Bluffs, and II Is
said 100 saloons and warehouses will be
closed as a result Of the courts findings.
Sioux City is working up a new and novel
fall exhibition. II Is named u "Corn Palace
Jubilee" and will be opened early in October.
The building will be 100 feet square and leo
feet high from toe greund To the tip Of the tiAe
staff. There will be four corner pavilions IL
feet square and SIS high. These will repre-.
sent Iowa, Minnesota. Dakota and Nebraska.
Over TIE second entrance IN Jackson street